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Last January, in a hefty consultation paper titled Redress and Civil Litigation, the commission published an actuarial model of a $4.37 billion scheme to cover an estimated 65,000 claimants.

The money would come from churches, charities, states and territories who ran those deplorable homes.

For this model to work it was proposed the federal government should run it and underwrite it.

When the commission published the consultation paper, it received up to 200 submissions which can been viewed on the commission's website under case study number 25 on www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/public-hearings/case-studies.

Lawyers, churches, advocacy groups, the states, abuse survivors and health organisations all had opinions on who should be eligible, how a scheme should be funded, who should manage it, and what benefits it should provide.

Top of the website submission list is a relatively brief two-pager from the federal government.

It says it has no power to run such a scheme and it has no role in underwriting it; the latter could mean it might have to cough up some money when an abusive institution cannot pay, or is defunct.

Commission Chair Justice Peter McClellan has expressed his disappointment at the Commonwealth response. Some states also resiled at the idea of a federally-run scheme.

Indications are however these objections will not have deterred the commission from recommending the same scheme on Monday.

In July, Justice McClellan addressed the Triennial Assembly of the Uniting Church and spoke of the complexities involved in redress.

He stressed a scheme had to be structured in a way to ensure its independence and the equal treatment of all survivors.

"One approach favoured by almost all of the institutions and survivor groups consulted with is a national scheme administered by the Commonwealth, but funded by the relevant institutions," Justice McClellan said.

"This is self-evidently the approach which will meet the objective of equal justice for survivors."

Survivors like those in CLAN are hoping that on Monday the government gets the message and people in their 70s, 80s and even 90s who were grossly neglected as children will not again be victimised.